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- Title
Feminist Empiricism as a Method for Inquiry in Nursing.
- Authors
Perry, Patsy A.
- Abstract
Feminist empiricism may provide a valuable approach for the acquisition, evaluation, and integration of biological knowledge in nursing epistemologies This article discusses feminist empiricism as a method for inquiry in nursing Proponents of feminist empiricism strive to work within the current political, social, and scientific structures while acknowledging that all three o! there structures must change if less distorted epistemologies are to emerge Hypertension in women is used to illustrate how feminist empiricism could be used to modify the traditional scientific approach The argument is made that the androcentricism of the traditional scientific approach mint be changed an order to include the problematics of women Moreover, women must have a central role in determining the problematics of both health and illness in women A philosophical stance embracing holism cannot deny biological phenomena or preclude research on these phenomena; Theorists and scientists in nursing have a unique opportunity to reconceptualize biological phenomena, from a holistic perspective, in the development of epistemologies for nursing An argument for the use of basic research as a quantitative methodology, from a feminist perspective, is made The appropriateness, for nursing, of basic research methodologies to generate knowledge about biological processes, which are within nursing's scientific domain, are discussed
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of nursing; FEMINISM; EMPIRICISM; WOMEN'S health
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1994, Vol 16, Issue 5, p480
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599401600503